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Alì Babà va in città

Titolo originale: Ali Baba Goes to Town
  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 21min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
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Eddie Cantor, June Lang, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Roland Young in Alì Babà va in città (1937)
SatireComedyFantasyMusical

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he o... Leggi tuttoA movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.A movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.

  • Regia
    • David Butler
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Harry Tugend
    • Jack Yellen
    • Gene Towne
  • Star
    • Eddie Cantor
    • Tony Martin
    • Roland Young
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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      • David Butler
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harry Tugend
      • Jack Yellen
      • Gene Towne
    • Star
      • Eddie Cantor
      • Tony Martin
      • Roland Young
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    • 9Recensioni della critica
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      • 1 vittoria e 1 candidatura in totale

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    Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor
    • Ali Baba
    Tony Martin
    Tony Martin
    • Yusuf…
    Roland Young
    Roland Young
    • Sultan
    June Lang
    June Lang
    • Princess Miriam…
    Gypsy Rose Lee
    Gypsy Rose Lee
    • Sultana
    • (as Louise Hovick)
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    Raymond Scott and His Quintet
    • Raymond Scott Quintete
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Ishak…
    Virginia Field
    Virginia Field
    • Dinah
    Alan Dinehart
    Alan Dinehart
    • Boland
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Prince Musah
    • (as Douglas Dumbrille)
    Maurice Cass
    Maurice Cass
    • Omar - The Rug Maker
    Warren Hymer
    Warren Hymer
    • Tramp
    Stanley Fields
    Stanley Fields
    • Tramp
    Paul Hurst
    Paul Hurst
    • Captain
    Sam Hayes
    Sam Hayes
    • Radio Announcer
    Douglas Wood
    Douglas Wood
    • Selim
    Sid Fields
    Sid Fields
    • Assistant Director
    • (as Sidney Fields)
    Ferdinand Gottschalk
    Ferdinand Gottschalk
    • Chief Councilor
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      • David Butler
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harry Tugend
      • Jack Yellen
      • Gene Towne
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    7weezeralfalfa

    Eddie brings Americana to Iraq 65 years too early

    It's always a treat to see another Eddie Cantor film, rarely shown on TV and slow to be transferred to the latest video technology. Eddie dreams he has traveled to Bagdad, where he becomes Ali Baba, becoming involved in palace politics and initiating an Americanization program. He introduces swing music and finally convinces the reluctant sultan to replace his hereditary position with an elected president, with the understanding that the sultan will have no meaningful opposition. Eddie arranges for rally signs displaying various New Deal slogans and also nicknames the sultan(Abdullah) "Honest Abe". But, the people overwhelmingly elect Eddie, even though he isn't running. They dig his swing music played by a Harlem band, his humor and his enthusiasm for reforms benefiting them. The Sultan wins only 2 districts: garbled versions of Maine and Vermont, which were the only 2 states FDR didn't carry in the 1936 elections. Eddie is now in big trouble with the sultan, who is determined to make good on his threat to boil Eddie in oil. Eddie has to get away from here fast, but how? He finds a magic flying carpet, but the magic word to make it fly isn't known. Eddie guesses "inflation", since FDR thinks that should make the economy fly. It works, but without a steering wheel, Eddie is at the mercy of its whims as to where it takes him. His troubles aren't over yet....I'm sure, the screen writers would be shocked if they knew that Iraq would be forcibly subjected to an Americanization campaign only 65 years later.

    The musical highlight is the "Swing is Here to Stay" scene: an all African American effort, if we include Eddie in black face as an AA. The supposed band consists of AAs dressed as various native African tribals playing mostly obvious fake ornate or primitive musical instruments while dancing around. Meanwhile, Eddie struts and dances and sings in front, eventually being replaced by Jeni Le Gon, as a wild native dancer, then by the Peters Sisters, primarily a singing trio, with some footwork included. The Peters Sisters pretty well filled up the screen, being on the heavy side, but I enjoyed their act the most. They repeated their performance near the end of the film. It's too bad this seems to be the highlight of their very limited film career, although they continued to perform for several more decades. They may also be seen-heard on DVD in "Hi Di Ho" and heard on the CD "The Jazz Train", although I have not seen or heard these.
    drednm

    Eddie Cantor and the Peters Sisters

    Bright musical comedy with Eddie Cantor as a hobo who wanders onto a movie set and gets hired as an extra. He falls asleep and dreams he's back in ancient Bagdad.

    In ancient Bagdad he's taken as a relative of Ali Baba and gets involved in the palace intrigue where the Sultana (Gypsy Rose Lee as Louise Hovick) and her allies are plotting to overthrow the Sultan (Roland Young). Cantor cracks an endless stream of one-liners about Roosevelt's "New Deal," which of course no one understands. The plot then has Cantor running for president against the Sultan. But it's all a dream.

    The two show stoppers are the extended "Swing Is Here to Sway" with Cantor joined by dancer Jeni Le Gon and the fabulous Peters Sisters, and the "Twilight in Turkey" number by Raymond Scott and Quintet and danced by the Pearl Twins. Great stuff.

    Co-stars include Tony Martin, June Lang, John Carradine, Virginia Field, Alan Dinehart, Stanley Fields, Warren Hymer, and Lynn Bari as a harem girl. The Peters Sisters, Mattye, Anne, and Virginia, just about steal the show from Cantor, who discovered them at a local nightclub and put them right in his movie.

    One of Cantor's best.
    6AAdaSC

    Dream film

    Most of this film takes place in a dream. Eddie Cantor (Ali Baba) is a hobo travelling to Hollywood where he wants to hang out with the movie stars and collect their autographs. However, he falls out of the train he is travelling on and ends up on a film set for Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. He is given a part as an extra and waits for his moment. However, he has taken some medication which sends him to sleep.........cue the dream......

    The film is fun if you like Eddie Cantor and a few of the cast play dual roles. It pokes fun at legislation that is of its time and this dates it. Also, the songs performed by Cantor aren't particularly memorable and the dancing is nothing memorable either. What does entertain in this film are the novelty numbers and so a mention must go to Jeni le Gon and the Peters Sisters who elevate the film into the worthwhile category.

    Gypsy Rose Lee plays a part in this film as the evil Sultana and she is memorable as a baddie. She is mean and must have incorporated dominatrix aspects into her burlesque striptease routines. John Carradine has a very strange outfit in the dream sequence - a sort of inspiration for the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s and a modern-day champion for gender neutrality. He wears a large pearl necklace with matching earrings and what comes across as a clown/joker outfit with angled shoulder pads. He reminded me of Steve Strange in David Bowie's video for "Ashes to Ashes." Carradine's outfit is something that Steve Strange would have worn many years later as he influenced the fashion world and formed his band Visage - "Fade to Grey" is a classic. If you ask me, it's a ridiculous look.
    3planktonrules

    I can't see how this movie has it's current score of 8.1....

    Eddie Cantor made some wonderful films. My favorite, by far, is "Forty Little Mothers". The movie is sweet and charming...and well worth seeing as are many of his other films ("Thanks Your Lucky Stars"). But he also made a few that are very, very dated and when you see them today they lack an important quality of his better films....they aren't funny. This is definitely the case with "Ali Baba Goes to Town"...a rather unfunny comedy which, inexplicably, has an overall score of 8.1. Why? I have no idea as it's dated and many of the jokes fall very flat.

    When the film begins, Al (Cantor) is a hobo traveling by rail to Hollywood. Once there he gets a job as a movie extra on an Ali Baba-like movie. But when he takes too many pain killers, he awakens in ancient Baghdad and everyone thinks he's Ali Baba. He soon becomes buddies with the Sultan (Roland Young) and convinces the guy to enact a lot of American and New Deal reforms which end up backfiring badly. And, as a result, Ali (Cantor) must run or lose his head.

    This is a great example of a film that played well in the day but is terribly dated today. All of Cantor's remarks about politics and the Roosevelt administration were fine in 1937 but today they just seem unfunny. And, speaking of unfunny, Cantor's black-face routine is also unfortunately in this picture and is cringe-worthy. And, while some folks absolutely love it (you can only assume this with an 8.1 rating), I thought it among Cantor's worst. Unfunny and dated...badly. About the only part I liked was at the movie premier at the end...when Al AND Eddie Cantor appeared. That was cute....but otherwise...meh.
    jimjo1216

    A 1930s cultural curiosity

    ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN (1937) is an interesting historical curiosity for classic movie buffs. It stars famed entertainer Eddie Cantor in one of his rare movie roles. The cast includes such familiar faces as Roland Young, John Carradine, Douglass Dumbrille, and Charles Lane, but also features burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee (a.k.a. Louise Hovick) at the outset of her ill-fated film career. "Looney Tunes" fans and music enthusiasts are also in for a treat seeing Raymond Scott and His Quintet dressed as Arabs and "performing" their eccentric jazz ("Twilight in Turkey") on primitive instruments.

    Old movies from Hollywood's Golden Age often serve as time capsules for their era, and that is true with ALI BABA. Meant to be shown for a few weeks in theaters before stepping aside for new features from Hollywood's movie-churning machine, films set out to entertain the audience of their time, never dreaming of being resurrected in the age of home video and TCM. Jokes are often topical, reflecting the political climate or world news of the day. Dance sequences capture an era in music history and small cultural references may be lost on modern viewers.

    ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN borrows its premise from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", inserting a modern man (through a dream) into an old and foreign setting. This time, star-struck autograph seeker Al Babson (Cantor) visits the set of a Hollywood "Arabian Nights" movie, dozes off, and imagines he is in ancient Bagdad, where Roland Young is the real sultan and Douglass Dumbrille is the scheming prince. Cantor reforms Bagdad, introducing American principles of democracy and economics. He shapes Arab society in the image of New Deal America, with amusing (if absurd) modern touches (camel filling stations?) and plenty of cracks at Franklin Roosevelt and 1930s politics.

    Eddie Cantor was an entertainer on stage, radio, and screen. He was famous in part, like Al Jolson, for his blackface routines, and there's one in ALI BABA. When the sultan is unable to grab the attention of his tribal African servants, Cantor speaks some Cab Calloway jive and gets them on their feet. Rubbing on his minstrel face paint, Cantor leads the Africans in an extended musical number ("Swing Is Here To Stay"), which earned an Oscar nod for dance direction. The scene was an innocuous inclusion in 1937, but can be a bit uncomfortable for modern viewers in this age of racial sensitivity.

    Another great time capsule scene is at the close of the film, where the movie-within-the-movie has its glitzy premiere. It's a look back at the red carpet Hollywood premieres of yesteryear, where stars would be announced as they arrived by an emcee at a microphone. Footage from an authentic movie premiere provides cameos from Hollywood icons like Douglas Fairbanks, Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Victor McLaglen, Sonja Henie, Cesar Romero, and Dolores del Rio, as well as other stars of the day whose names haven't stood the test of time.

    This Eddie Cantor vehicle is a dated comedy in many ways, but is valuable from a historical perspective. With its political satire and its glimpse of vintage Hollywood, the movie is intriguing. Some of the gags are fun, and it's a rare film that shows John Carradine (in an Arabian get-up, no less) doing a silly little dance. The flying carpet effects are relatively primitive, but fairly effective. I'd never seen Eddie Cantor on film before, and I must say I found his eye-rolling shtick tiresome. But that's probably his trademark and he did know his way around a witty line of dialogue.

    Check out ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN if you're a fan of old-time Hollywood. (It helps if you're familiar with the 1930s and recognize names like Eddie Cantor, Gypsy Rose Lee, Roland Young, John Carradine, and Raymond Scott.) It's mildly entertaining, but it's certainly a neat curiosity. Keep an eye out for it.

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      Final film of Douglas Fairbanks.
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      The story is set in tenth-century Baghdad but reference is made to the Sultan being the ruler of Arabia. Baghdad is in Iraq or, as it would have been known then, Mesopotamia.
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      Sultan: I hope you'll enjoy what we've got - if you don't mind taking pot luck?

      Ali Baba: Can I get a hot dog and a bottle of pop?

      Sultan: Hot dog? Pop?

      Ali Baba: That's the great national diet in America. I've just come from there.

      Sultan: America? Where is that?

      Ali Baba: A great open space between New York and Hollywood.

    • Versioni alternative
      Some prints also include Tony Martin singing, and June Lang dancing, "I've Got My Heart Set on You", making for a running time closer to 81 minutes than 77 minutes in the edited versions.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Il giorno della locusta (1975)
    • Colonne sonore
      Twilight in Turkey
      (1937)

      Written by Raymond Scott

      Performed by Raymond Scott and His Quintet (uncredited)

      Danced by The Pearl Twins

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      • 29 ottobre 1937 (Stati Uniti)
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      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
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